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‘Feuding’ daughter-in-law arrested for killing three family members with poisoned Christmas cake, after tests revealed ‘elevated levels’ of arsenic in the cake, blood and urine of fatalities and survivors

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d90644ec9731fa64b8ea1d9e9e4a7c7c" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Brazilian cops arrested a daughter-in-law who had been feuding with her family for years for poisoning family&&num;8217&semi;s Christmas cake leading to three deaths and three hospitalizations <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-388fcc96f8b56e3be78fa994c6e0248a" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Deise Moura&comma; 49&comma; was arrested Sunday at the home she shares with her husband Diego Luiz in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30df2e2c125eb272d40cd971b9c4de1e" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She is held &&num;8216&semi;on suspicion of committing triple homicide&comma; with a futile motive and using poison&comma; and three attempted homicides&comma; with a double aggravation&&num;8217&semi;&comma; police said&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-303907f2f5fa7224c92277b7b004519b" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos&comma; 43&comma; and Maida Berenice Flores da Silva&comma; 58&comma; died after having the Christmas dessert of Bo<&sol;strong>lo de Natal<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-865e7fc819b4a54e516fc1e82e11903e" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Tatiana<&sol;strong>&OpenCurlyQuote;<strong>s mother&comma; Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjo&comma; 65&comma; was rushed to hospital in critical condition before also dying on Christmas eve<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8852b43db17f92d1df75c2e049407852" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Victims died of cardiac arrest within hours of eating the cake &&num;8211&semi; lab tests revealed high levels of deadly arsenic in the blood of those who consumed the cake <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b24d73ac070c572f938d8c400eff5eb" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Moura&&num;8217&semi;s father-in-law died of food poisoning back in September&comma; her mother-in-law remains hospitalized after eating the poisoned cake <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48909243d0056194076f170a9eb717c8" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d2323&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>A<strong> furious relative challenged Moura&&num;8217&semi;s presence of at the victims&&num;8217&semi; funeral&comma; accusing her of making <strong><strong>insincere gestures of grief<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Deise-Moura-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473424" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Deise Moura &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; 49&comma; was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of murdering three members of of her husband&&num;8217&semi;s family&period; Her father-in-law died of food poisoning back in September&comma; while her mother-in-law remains hospitalized also from poisoning <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Detectives investigating a Christmas&nbsp&semi;cake food poisoning that left three members of the same family dead began looking into the daughter-in-law of one of the victims after a row at a funeral last month&period;<br>Deise Moura&comma; 49&comma; was arrested yesterday and held by police at the home she shares with her husband Diego Luiz in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Police said she had been feuding with her family for years&period;<br>Brazil&&num;8217&semi;s Ministry of Justice confirmed the issue of an arrest warrant for Moura &&num;8216&semi;on suspicion of committing triple homicide&comma; with a futile motive and using poison&comma; and three attempted homicides&comma; with a double aggravation&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>The ministry&&num;8217&semi;s statement added that &&num;8216&semi;the suspect will have a custody hearing on Monday afternoon&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Brazilian-Christmas-cake-1&period;webp" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473427" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>The &&num;8216&semi;Bolo de Natal&&num;8217&semi; Christmas cake that was consumed by guests on December 23&comma; that allegedly caused the death of 3 family members<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Zeli-dos-Anjos-1&period;webp" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473428" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Zeli dos Anjos &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; prepared the traditional &OpenCurlyQuote;Bolo de Natal’ festive treat for a family afternoon coffee on December 23&comma; in the southern Brazilian city of Torres&period; She remains critically ill after eating the cake&period; Her daughter-in-law has been arrested for triple-homicide<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Deise&&num;8217&semi;s mother-in-law Zeli Dos Anjos made the traditional festive treat which killed three members of her family at a party at Torres near Porto Alegre in southern Brazil two days before Christmas on December 23&period;<br>61-year-old Zeli is still in hospital fighting for her life&comma; while her two sisters Maida da Silva&comma; 58&comma; and Neuza Dos Anjos&comma; 65&comma; both died along with Neuza&&num;8217&semi;s daughter Tatiana Dos Santos&comma; 43&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>They lost their lives within hours of eating the cake&period; Police said lab tests confirmed that &&num;8216&semi;elevated levels&&num;8217&semi; of arsenic had been found in the cake and in the blood and urine of those who had died&comma; as well as those of the survivors<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Tatiana-Denize-Silva-dos-Anjos-1&period;webp" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473431" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; died following having the Christmas cake on Dec&period; 23<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Maida-Berenice-Flores-da-Silva-1&period;webp" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473433" style&equals;"width&colon;829px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Maida Berenice Flores da Silva&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; also died after she ate the Christmas cake on December 23 during the family get-together<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Neuza-Denize-Silva-dos-Anjo-1&period;webp" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473435" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>After the meal on Dec 23&comma; Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjo&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was rushed to hospital in critical condition&period; She died the following day<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At the victims&&num;8217&semi; funeral in December&comma; Deise is said to have placed a &&num;8216&semi;set of rosary beads and a rose&&num;8217&semi; in the hands of the Maida and Tatiana as they lay at the cemetery in their caskets&period;<br>It prompted an extraordinary outburst from one furious relative who burst out&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Why are you here&quest; You didn&&num;8217&semi;t like any of them&period; Everyone knows&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>The source added&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Diego and Deise kept themselves apart from the rest of the family the last few months&period; They didn&&num;8217&semi;t really participate much&period; There was tension&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Matheus-Marques-da-Silva-with-his-Father-Leonir-Alves-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473442" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Leonir Alves was at the bedside of his 10-year-old son Matheus Marques da Silva who survived eating the poisoned cake at the hospital in Torres&comma; Brazil<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Tatiana&&num;8217&semi;s 10-year-old son Matheus&comma; Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s great nephew&comma; was treated in hospital and only released on Friday&comma; while Maida&&num;8217&semi;s husband Jefferson was also treated but Neuza&&num;8217&semi;s husband Joao did not eat any cake and was unaffected&period;<br>Police are set to expand on what they believe lies behind the horror poisoning&comma; with reports in Brazil pointing to the suspect and Zeli having quarreled in the past in a dispute said to be linked to what subsequently occurred&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Sisters-Zeli-left-Maida-centre-and-Neuza-right-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473447" style&equals;"width&colon;835px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Sisters Zeli &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Maida &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; and Neuza &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; all ate the cake baked by Zeli for the Christmas party held at Maida&&num;8217&semi;s home&period; Maida and Neuza are both dead while Zeli remains hospitalized in critical condition<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On the heels of the festive season tragedy it was revealed that Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s first husband Paulo Luis&comma; 68&comma; died after eating a banana that had been contaminated&comma; with officials set to exhume his body from its final resting place next Thursday as part of their probe&period;<br>Paulo Luiz is the father of Deise Mauro&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Diego Luiz&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;The woman&comma; &lpar;Moura&rpar;&comma; was arrested for triple homicide and a triple attempted homicide&&num;8221&semi; Torres police chief Marcus Vinicius Veloso who said the mother of one had been arrested at her home in Nova Santa Rita late on Sunday&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;She was taken initially to a police station at Canoas&comma; then to Torres police station and is now in the women&&num;8217&semi;s jail in the city&comma; at this moment we cannot say anything else&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Deise-Moura-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473437" style&equals;"width&colon;833px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s daughter-in-law&comma; Deise Moura &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma;was taken initially to a police station at Canoas&comma; then to Torres police station and is now in the women&&num;8217&semi;s jail in the city&period; She faces three counts of homicide and a three counts of attempted homicide <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It was at Paulo and Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s seaside property that she made the cake on December 23&comma; which she took to Maida&&num;8217&semi;s apartment for the party&comma; and at the house police have seized ingredients including dried fruit and flour&comma; as well as pesticides&period;<br>Last week police said they are &&num;8216&semi;not aware of any disputes within the family&&num;8217&semi; but are keeping an open mind while waiting for results from lab tests which are due back any day and provisional reports revealed arsenic in the blood of the victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Deise-Moura-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473440" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>A <strong><strong>furious relative challenged <strong>Deise Moura<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s presence of at the victims&&num;8217&semi; funeral&comma; accusing her of making <strong><strong>insincere gestures of grief<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Deise-Moura-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473441" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>At the victims funeral&comma; one furious relative shouted at Moura&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Why are you here&quest; You didn&&num;8217&semi;t like any of them&period; Everyone knows&period;&&num;8217&semi; She was arrested at her home in Nova Santa Rita late on Sunday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Investigative sources confirmed Paulo&&num;8217&semi;s body would be exhumed next Thursday for further analysis as none were taken after doctors at Torres hospital ruled he had died from food poisoning&period;<br>Family members said Paulo and Zeli suddenly fell ill after eating some mashed bananas they had grown from a plant in their garden&comma; and which may have been contaminated after floods swept through the region in May&period;<br>A the time Zeli was also taken to hospital but recovered while Paulo died within hours of being admitted&period;<br>The group of seven at the Christmas party complained the cake she baked tasted &&num;8216&semi;bitter and peppery&&num;8217&semi; within minutes all were vomiting and a fleet of ambulances was called to take them to hospital&period;<br>Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s ten-year-old great nephew Matheus Marques da Silva&comma; was also taken ill and spent a week in intensive care before being moved onto a pediatric unit on Friday night from the Senhora dos Navegantes hospital in Torres&period; <br>Matheus is the son of Zeli&&num;8217&semi;s niece Tatiana Dos Santos&comma; who also died after eating the poisoned cake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-14247535&sol;Mystery-killer-Christmas-cake-arsenic-outsider-grudge&period;html"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;01&sol;Zeli-Dos-Anjos-with-her-late-husband-Paulo-Luiz-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-473446" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Moura&&num;8217&semi;s mother-in-law Zeli Dos Anjos&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; a retired teacher&comma; is fighting for her life in hospital&period; Her husband Paulo Luiz&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; died from suspected food poisoning in September&period; Cops confirmed his remains will be exhumed for proper postmortem <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Paulo&&num;8217&semi;s brother Joao who is married to Neuza&comma; did not eat any cake but Maida&&num;8217&semi;s husband Jefferson had a few mouthfuls and was also taken ill but did not require a stay in hospital&period;<br>The poisoning at the Christmas gathering has reignited speculation about whether Zeli and her late husband were targets of a sinister plot&period;<br>Police initially treated the tragedy as a possible accident&comma; but Moura’s arrest has cast doubt on that theory&period;<br>A few days ago&comma; Jefferson da Silva&&num;8217&semi;s sister Isabel Moraes had speculated that someone with a &&num;8216&semi;grudge&&num;8217&semi; had been responsible for targeting the family&comma; describing the string of tragedies as &&num;8216&semi;strange&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>Reacting to Sunday&&num;8217&semi;s arrest Moraes said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;The whole family is shocked&period; We just don&&num;8217&semi;t know what to say&comma; someone who is so close to us&comma; we never imagined it&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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